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BOOK
VIII.
Royal
Cornmentaries.
CH
AP.
xv.
The
Count
de Nieva
is chof
en Vice-Hing of
Peru.
He fends
a Me!fage
to his
Predecej/or. The
Death
of
the Marquis
of
Cannece,
as alfo of the Count
de
Nieva. Don Garcia
de .
Mendos:a
returns to
Spain:
The. Lawyer
Caftro
is
appointed Governour of
Peru.
"'tTTHilft
thefe ma
ers were
tranfatting
in
Peru,
and
that
Orfua
and
his
VV
Fellow adventurers with him., were def ated upon the gr at
kiver
of
the
AmazJJm
;
his
Majefty King
Philip
the Second,
was
mindful to provide a
New Governour
for
thaE Empire;.
having
in
the
place
of that good
Mao,
Don Diego Je
~evedo,
who lately
dyed,
appointed
Don D iego
de
Cunniga
and
Yel
co
Count
de Nie7Ja,
to fucceed in
the
Office of Vice-King; who difpatched
his Affairs with fuch diligence, that he departed from
Spain
in
the Month of
7•nHl!.YJ
1
s6o,,
and arrived in
Peru
in the
Month of
April
following. So
foon
as he came
to
Payta,
which
is
a
Town
within
that
Dominion,
he difpatdied "
away
a Servant of
his, with a fhort
Letter
to the Vice-King,
Don
Andres
HHr–
t4do
de
Mendofa,
giving
him
advice
of
his
arrival
within
the
Dominions
of
Pn-u,
with
Commiffion from
bis Majefty
to govern
that Country., and
that
therefore
he lhould defift
from
intermedling
further
in
the Affairs thereof.
Don Andres Hurtado
having received intelligence
of the
coming of
this
Me1fen–
ger,
gave
Orders
to
have him well
received,
and
treated
all the Way of
his
Journey ;
and being
come
to
the City of
Los
Reyes,
he
had there
Honou- ·
rable Lodgings provided for him, with Prefents in Jewels, and
Gold,
and
Silver, to the
value
of fix
and
7000
pieces of.Eight, and upwards : But the
Mefienger
loft all
thefe
upon a
Pique, and
Exception
which
the Vice- King
t:ook at the Title of
Lordlhip,
which was ordered to be given, and not
of Excellency; the
which he
fo
highly
refented, and fuffered
the
thoughts
of
being
fiigbted,
and neglected
by
his Succdfor,
without
Reafon or
J
uftice,
fo
far to
run
in his head;
that
it
ftrnck him into a deep Melancholly,
which
fo
prevailed
t>D
his Spirits, that being a Man of great Years, and not
able
to
ftruggle with the Difeafe, he ended
bis
days before the new Vice-King
arrived at
Los Reyt;s
:
who alfo enjoyed not long the happinefs he expetl:ed in
his Government, in which he had not been many Months Seated with the
Solemnity ufed on fuch occafions, before a ftrange Accident haftened his
Death, of which he was the Author., and brought
it
upon himfelf. But
the manner of
it
being
fcandalous
to relate, we fhall leave
it
as
it
is, and pro–
ceed on to other particulars.
Don Garcia
de
Mendofa,
who was Govcrnour
of
Chile.,
having
received in–
telligence of the death of his
Father,
made fuch
bafte
to
return
into
Peru,
and thence to prepare for his Voyage into
Spain,
that many people re–
ported,
tliat he
haftn
ed away
more
out
of
fear
of the
Araucans
than ont
of a defire he had to
affi.fta£ the Funeral of his Father : And that with
the like precipitation
he quitted the Territories of
PerH,
not to
be fub–
ject to the Dominion of another. At length he arrived in
Spain,
where
he continued
unt:il
he
returned
with a Commiffion to .be Governour of
Peru ;
where he
impofed
that Taxe. on the
Spaniards·,
and
Jndiam,
which
is paid
by
them unto this day. As to his other
ways
of gain,
his
Contracts, and Commerce, we ihall pafs them all by, being not within the
compafs of this
Hiftory :
For
my
inteotion being only to write, as far as
co
the Death of the Prince" who was lawful Heir of that Empire, fecond Brother
.of
Don Diego
Sayri T t-tpac,
of
whofe
coming
out
of
the Mountains, his
Bap-
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